Thorium Fueled Molten Salt Reactor Research in Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics
In
January 2011, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) launched a
Strategic Priority Research Program named “Advanced Fission Energy
Program”
to confront two grand challenges in the nuclear energy world –
long-term nuclear fuel supply and permanent disposal of spent nuclear
fuel. The program consists of two projects, the TMSR (Thorium Molten
Salt Reactor) and the ADS. The TMSR project is to utilize the thorium
energy via the development of molten salt and molten salt-cooled reactor
technologies, in order to secure the long-term nuclear fuel supply by
diversifying the sources of the fuel. By around 2035, the TMSR
project shall build a 1000MWe molten salt-cooled demonstration reactor
and a 100MWe molten salt demonstration reactor (liquid fuel), as
well as possess the technologies that pave the road to commercialization
of the thorium-fueled nuclear energy systems. The Shanghai Institute of
Applied Physics is leading the efforts to build a 2 MW molten salt
research reactor in five years. A center dedicated to TMSR research
(TMSR Center) has already been established.
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